As the cry-bullies continue to object to the election results, Mike Rowe is putting college protestors in their place.
Protestors at several schools were captured on video burning the American flag and stomping on it. However, no schools punished the behavior. Instead, Hampshire College’s administration caved and stopped flying the American flag on its campus only to restore it later on.
If the outcome of a free and fair election makes people hate the American flag, then they don’t have the slightest understanding of this country’s founding principles. Their schools have failed them.
Mike Rowe, the former host of the TV show Dirty Jobs, sees that the American people are funding those very schools, funneling dollars into places that teach people to despise this country.
He posted some of his thoughts on Facebook:
“Tuition at Hampshire College is about $60,000 a year. That’s not a problem because it’s expensive – it’s a problem because 85% of Hampshire students qualify for some form of federal financial aid,” Rowe wrote. “That means that We the People are enabling schools like Hampshire to sell a liberal arts degree for approximately $250,000.”
Federal financial aid is well-intentioned, with the purpose of making college more affordable. But schools are pretty smart institutions – and they knew they could ratchet up the price of attendance now that Uncle Sam (that’s us, the taxpayers) would be footing the bill. Students get stuck with huge loans, and we get stuck pumping our tax dollars into institutions that oppose the things we believe in – the ideals on which this country was built.
“I found myself wondering as to why the President of Hampshire College would allow his students to pay for their tuition with federal dollars – federal dollars provided by the same government whose flag was no longer suitable to fly at his school,” Rowe noted.
Working-class people don’t have time to be bothered by PC nonsense. They’re too busy keeping the American economy going.
Mike Rowe knows this well, as the current brains behind “Hot Under the Blue Collar,” he funds a scholarship program through “Mike Rowe Works.” This program supports students with excellent work ethics to attend trade schools where they learn practical skills that are in demand.
This comes in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump tweeting that flag burning should be criminalized with harsh penalties.
Criminalizing the desecration of the flag is not a new idea – it failed by one vote in Congress in 2006 – but it was a popular proposal. A new petition asks the next Congress to consider finally passing a law designating flag desecration as hate speech.
Hampshire College President Jonathan Lash said that some students experienced “fear and discomfort” at the sight of the flag flying on campus, however the school never seemed afraid or uncomfortable with taking money earned by the American worker.
